Scarf and method of forming the same



June28, 1960 M. ROSS v SCARF AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME Filed Nov. 29, 1957 INVENTOR ETHEL. M. Ross The present invention relates to wearing apparel, specifically neckwear, and has particular-reference to a novel form of scarf designed especially for feminine use,

and to a novel method of forming the same. Presentday conventional scarfs, Widely in feminine use, are generally of square configuration and they are applied to the neck in various ingenious ways after first folding them to produce one of several basic folds. Principal among these folds is the diagonal fold wherein the scarf is folded in diagonal fashion to produce a double-thickness triangular structure. Another basic fold is the fiat fold wherein the scarf is progressively folded to produce a rectangular structure of three, four or five thicknesses. Another basic fold is known as the envelope fold wherein two opposing corners of'the scarf are folded inwardly toward the central regions of the scarf and allowedto overlap slightly to produce a six-sided structure with parallel sides and pointed ends. Other less common folds are sometimes resorted to for unusual and ingenious methods of application to the neck of the user. Square scarfs of this nature are sometimes applied to the body as head pieces, midriff coverings, bodices and the like, but, since the present invention is essentially concerned with a neckpiece, such uses are' :foreign to the'present invention. A conventional scarf which has been'foldefd'in'one of the basic manners outlined above may be applied to the neck of the user in numerous ingenious ways well known to the fashion world. Such a scarf may be worn around the neck as an outside garment in various cape and bolero forms. More often than not, however, such scarfs are worn as'an inside garment around the neck and such fashion modes of application as the Cravat Tie, the Bow- Knot Tie, the Loop Tiefthe Side Twist'Tie, the'Bow Collar Tie, the Dandy Tie, the Bateau Fill-in, the Smplice Bib, the Riviera, and other modes of application are prevalent. Rectangular scarfs ofthis nature, however, may be applied to the neck of the user' as an inside garment, are subject to a common limitation in that a major United States PatentC cravat forms, petals and various knots which are incapable of being produced by the conventional scarf, While at the same time avoiding the formation of bulky, unsightly and uncomfortable masses of material about the neck of the user. 7

The provision of a scarf which obviates the limitations of conventional scarfs briefly outlined above being among the general objects of the invention, it is a specific object to provide such a scarf which may be quickly" applied to the'neck of the user and arranged asdesired to produce various attractive displays, either before or after appli-' cation of an outer garment without necessitating difficult arrangement of the material of the scarf about the neck of the user and without requiring outside assistance.

Another and important object of the invention is to provide a scarf of novel design which is so proportioned that there is a sparsity of the fabric material of the scarf at a region where it is not required for display purposes and which is possessed of an excess of material in the region where it is to be fashioned into a display so that the user need not be concerned with concealing a large which, therefore, may be produced at a relatively 'low' portion of the scarf is interposed between an inner gar:

ment suchas a blouse or suit coat and an outer garment such as a cloth'or fur coat, usually down the back of the user where it is subject to upward creeping or. bunching,'much to the discomfort of the user. This is particularly true when the scarf is worn either with a rectangular flat fold in the manner of a mutfier or with a diagonal fold wherein two thicknesses of the structure extend over the shoulders of the user and down the back in pointed fashion. Not only are such scarfs uncomfortable in use due to gathering of the material at the regions of greatest mass, but they are difficult-to apply. Where the scarf is applied to the neck and shoulders of the user prior to application of the outer garment, the difliculty is not so great, but when the scarf is tobe applied after the outer garment has already been put in place, it is almost imabove-noted limitations that are attendant upon the use scarf arrangements bulk ofthe material when applying the scarf to the neck or with the unavailability of sufficient material inthe display region thereof to produce a desired display effect;

Yet another object of the invention, in a scarf. of this character, is to provide. a fabric scarf which may be fashioned or tied in the display regions thereof at the openneck portion of the user adjacent the front portion of a sport shirt, sport coat, sweater, blouse .or the like to' produce various bows and other knots and which assures the presence of a large quantity of excess material so that after the bow or other knot has been tied, there will be no sparsity of the material in the free end portions'o f the knot, regardless. of. the neck size of the user and regardless of whether the scarf is placed around the barev neck of the user or around the high collar portion of an inner garment. V V

The provision of a scarf which is extremely simple in its construction; one which requires no special sewing or other machine operations for its manufacture and cost; one which entails the use of a minimum quantity of fabric material, thereby further contributing toward a low cost of manufacture; one which may be folded Within extremely small dimensions for packaging or carrying purposes; one which may, on occasion, if necessary, be laundered in selected regions thereof which are more apt to become soiled than others; one which is conducive" toward manufacture in a wide variety of special fabric patterns to produce unusual and attractive display efiects when worn; and one which otherwise is well adapted to perform the services required of it, are further desirable features'which have been borne in mind in the production and development of the present invention. I

In the accompanying single sheet of drawings forming a part of this specification, two embodiments of the invention have been shown. I In these drawings i Fig. 1 is a plan view of a scarf constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the scarffashionedto produce a half-knot capable of being applied as a display to the neck of a user or alternatively, as a preliminary knot-tying operation preparatory to further Patented June 28, 1960.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view similar to Fig. 2 showing the scarf fashioned about the neck of a user to produce abow eetfeot;

Eie is a fr mentary plan iew of adiacent reg on of. c rtai cloth pieces which c ope te o. m ke up they compo it s rf nd showi on o th p ces urne insid'esout, to illustrate he. manner in. which the pieces are. a embl pon on he 7 Fig. 5 is a fragmentary plan view of a slightly modified form of scarf constructed in accordance with the Principles of the pr ent e tion;

Fig. 6 is an enlarged sectional view taken substantial- 1y alongtheline 6-6 ofFig. 1.

Referring now to the drawings in detail and in par- .61 .131. to, Fig. 1 wherein a preferred formof the invention has. beeuillustrated, the scarf comprises two relatirely arg re t ng r ody em er 10 which may or may not. be. hemmed as at 1'2 completely around their borders. The rear portion of the members 10 are connected together by a relatively narrow rectangular strip or neck band 14 which may be formed from the same fabric material as that of the members 10 and which is preferably folded as. at 16 on its central longitudinal axis to provide a double-thickness neck band. The body members 10. may be constructed of any suitable fabric as, for example, silk, nylon and the like, or Dacron, Qrlon or other synthetic fabrics commonly employed in the. m nufacture of scarf s. The two body members it? are identical in size and shape and present substantially square areas having straight outer and inner side mar- 18 and 20, respectively, a distal margin 22 and a proximate margin 24, which latter margins are likewise t a ght.

The neck band 14 is of sufficient length to almost, but not entirely, encircle the neck of the user and the inner margin thereof may be provided with an overlapping hem 26. formed by folding a limited narrow edge region of one side of the double-thickness material around the edge of the other side and then stitching through the three thicknesses of material involved. The two thicknesses of material which comprise the neck band l t are. designated at 2 8. and 30, respectively, and the end regions of these two thicknesses of material. straddle a limited region of the body members 10 as indicated at 31 so that the stitching which extends through thescarf at this region passes through four thicknesses of'material, namely, the two thicknesses 28. and 30, the body portion of h body member nd i s h m por '12- i In con tructing he s a a co d ng to he m h d o the present invention, the two rectangular body portions 'within the fold and arranging the entire assembly in the general pattern in which it is shown in Fig. 1. At this time, the unstitched adjacent edges on the inside of the neck band may be folded over as previously described and stitched as at 26 so that the two body portions will remain completely outside the fold enclosure of the band 14 to produce the finished article. By the method of the present invention inside seams are presented at the junctures between the ends of the neck band 14 and the adjacent inside regions of the edges 20. of the body portion It) to which they are respectively secured.

Two exemplary uses of thescarf of the present invention have been illustrated in Figs; 2.. and 3, respectively, and, as a matter of coincidence, the illustrated use of the scarf in Fig. 2 constitutes a preliminary arrangement of the scarf preparatory to fashioning the arrangement thereof shown in Fig. 3. The uses illustrated are purely exemplary and it will be understood that, the scarf is capable of being arranged about the neck of the user to produce a great variety of attractive and pleasing fec s- In Fig. 2 the scarf has been arranged to produce what is known as. a half knot. The band 1 4 is caused to almost completely encircle the neck of the user and preferably the free edge of the hem 26 is worn on the inside so that it is concealed. The two body portions 10 are entwined in the manner shown at, 50. in Fig. "-2 near the juncture, regions where these body portions are connected to the neck band 14. if the half knot thus created is to constitute the, neck displayfone or the other of the entwined portions 52 of the half knot is allowed to predominate in front of the other body portion by im 1 0. are first. cut to size and hemmed as previously de-.

scribed and, atthe same time, the material which comprises, the neck band 14. is cut to size. Before applying the three-thickness hem 2.6 to the neck band, the neck band pattern piece is folded or creased along the lines of thefold 16 but a reversed direction so that the. fold is of the inside-out variety with the faces of the material that ultimately form the outside surfaces being placed in juxtaposition as shown in Fig. 4. The corner region of each'body portion 12 which is ultimately to be. joined to the. neck band portion of the scarf is then inserted between the reversely folded sections 28 and 30 as shown in Fig. 4 and a straight line of stitching is made S. at 32 which may, or may not, fall over the, initial stitching of the hem 12. At this point in the manufacture of the scarf, the composite edge of the thus assembled and stitched structure as shown at 3 4. in Fig. 4 will present three exposed material edges including the hemmed edge 12 of the. body portion 10 and two unhemmed OI rough edges 36 which are the transverse edges of'the reversely folded neck band 14. Thefsectionsjzii and 30 of the, reversely folded neck band are then again reverse y f lde y ur ng he n k and wh h s now inside-out to its final position. This be done; by opening up the fold and pulling the body portion 10 from parting toit a half-helix turn of considerably lessor pitch than is imparted to the other body portion, or by causing one body portion to encircle the other body portion which is not fashioned into a helix turn. The major part of each body portion 10 may be draped as indicated at 54 downwardly so as to partia ly cover the front part of the body of the user.

When applied tothe body of the user in the manner set forth above, it is obvious that the user need not be, concerned with the arrangement of the scarf at the back of her neck when. applying an outer garment suchas a coat or sweater, since there. is no excess of material that must he. neatly arranged between thev outer and inner gar- I QlJtS, Thebulk of the. material. of the. scarf is available. at the openrneck region where it may easily be fashioned into the half knot shown in Fig. 2 and where thereis anample supply of thematerial to produce the half knot as well as to produce the depending end dis- Pl y e o i he o In Fig. 3a full bow knot is shown and such a knot may be created in the usual manner of elfecting a bow knot proceeding from the initial formation of a half knot, structure asshown in Fig. 2. The actual tying ofa bow knot is too w l n n t eq i d tail d. d s pti n herein, but it will be understood that a symmetrical knot may be produced having the usual bow portions 60 with terminal'ends 62 and with a helix 64 which forms a part of one or the. other body portions 10 encircling apart of the other body portion and serving to maintain the bow region 60 properly arranged. With the scarf arranged as shown in Fig. 3 about the. neck of the user, it is obvious. that ample material is afforded by the scarf in the open-neck regions of the user for effecting a full and. attractive bow knot structure having terminal end strips 62 of full width throughout and which terminate in generally rectangular free ends 66 which are flator straight and arenot pointed as is the case with scarfs which are rectangular in configuration and which are folded in triangular fashion before being applied to the neck.

. In ie 5 a i h y od fie fo m f. sc rf. c n tr tion i ro-summarily h wnn this form f. the llYQIl: tion, the general considerations outlined above in connection with the scarf of Fig. 1 remain substantially the same and need not be described herein. To avoid need less repetition of description, similar reference characters have been applied to the corresponding parts of the respective parts of Figs. 1 and 5. In the modified form of scarf shown in Fig. 5, the neck band 114 and its mode of attachment to the body portions 110 of the scarf remain substantially the same and each body portion has been formed with a generally rounded or curved lower outside corner as indicated at 150. By the provision of a rounded comer, the pointed effect illustrated in Fig. 2 at the extreme lowermost end of the draped portions 54 of the scarf will be replaced by generally rounded scarf contours when the scarf of Fig. 5 is worn. A scarf having curved corner regions such as are shown at 150 may find favor over the scarf shown in Fig. 1 to conform to ensembles having matching curves as, for example, curved lapels, or to conform the decor of jackets which have curved and merging selvedge portions or contrasting curved patterns in the material of which various articles of clothing are made.

A preferred embodiment of the invention has been shown herein for exemplary purposes, as well as a modified embodiment thereof. It will be understood, however, that the invention is not to be limited to the exact arrangement of parts shown in the accompanying drawing and described in this specification, since various changes in the details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described the invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A scarf comprising, in plan, a neck portion in the form of an elongated narrow rectangular dual-thickness fabric strip longitudinally folded along its outer edge and adapted, when the scarf is worn, to surround and embrace at least the major portion of the neck, and a front display body portion at each end of said rectangular strip, said body portion being in the form of a substantially rectangular single-thickness fabric body having one square corner joined to an end of said rectangular strip so that one of the two edges which establish said corner is in alignment with and constitutes a straight linear extension of the outer longitudinal edge of the rectangular strip and so that the other edge which establishes said corner extends at an angle of to both the outside edge and the inside edge of said rectangular strip, the two thicknesses of said rectangular fabric strip in each extreme end region thereof straddling an edge portion of one of the fabric bodies, a row of stitching extending through the straddling portions of the rectangular strip and the edge portion which they respectively straddle, and a row of stitching closing the adjacent free longitudinal edges of said elongated rectangular strip.

2. The method of forming a scarf which comprises folding an elongated rectangular strip of fabric material along a medial longitudinal line so that the free longitudinal edges of the strip are brought into substantial coincidence, thus providing an elongated narrow dualthickness neck band for the scarf adapted to encircle at least a major portion of the circumference of the neck when the scarf is Worn, attaching a rectangular fabric body to one end of the neck band by inserting one square corner of the rectangular fabric body between the two thicknesses of the folded dual-thickness neck band and positioning the two edges which constitute said one square comer so that one of the edges is substantially coincident with the opposed transverse edges of the band at said one end and the other edge is in abutment with the fold to produce three thicknesses of fabric along the open transverse edge of the folded neck band at said one end of the neck band, stitching said three thicknesses of fabric along said open transverse edge of the folded neck band, reversing the fold of the initially folded neck band thereby enclosing the thus formed stitching within the reversely folded neck band, attaching a similar rectangular fabric body to the other end of said neck band by repeating the attaching operation, and finally stitching the free longitudinal edges of the reversely folded neck band together.

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